Why isn’t everyone moving to the Main Line?

[Anonymous]

Their average neighborhoods are like the nicest neighborhoods in DCA, with as high or higher rated schools at 1/2-2/3 the price. Or you could pay even less to live in Chestnut Hill and send kids to private. Why isn’t this more popular? My friends there are living in palaces with pools that would be $3M+ here.

[Anonymous]

Killadelphia is the one thing my friend who went to college in Philadelphia, settled and began his new life there has taught me. It’s not somewhere I would like to live and I have lived in DC since the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Too white & insular

[Anonymous]

Check on the appreciation on mainline homes. I think the problems of Philadelphia itself have stunted appreciation, according to my friend who lives on the mainline.

[Anonymous]

Another Main Line thread? Why aren't you living there? Answer that first.

[Anonymous]

Poor job market

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’d work if you work somewhere driveable in the suburbs. No way would I walk from center city to 30th street station, Suburban or Jefferson after dark to take the Paoli-Thorndale Line home. Too dangerous. Never understood how people are so comfortable doing that.

[Anonymous]

It’s a gorgeous area, but work keeps us tied to this area.

If it didn’t, that’d be one of our top choices. There are so many great areas in PA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check on the appreciation on mainline homes. I think the problems of Philadelphia itself have stunted appreciation, according to my friend who lives on the mainline.

The fast growth now is farther out, in Chester County (parts of which are now considered to be on the “upper mainline”). That area is similar to Loudoun; little extreme wealth or poverty. Montgomery County, where Lower Merion School District is, has some very rich & very poor parts.

[Anonymous]

Because I live here and like it. And I don't like snow.

[Anonymous]

Peep those property taxes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check on the appreciation on mainline homes. I think the problems of Philadelphia itself have stunted appreciation, according to my friend who lives on the mainline.

But appreciation isn’t so great if it means you are perennially priced out of a decent house. Affordable high-quality housing is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Killadelphia is the one thing my friend who went to college in Philadelphia, settled and began his new life there has taught me. It’s not somewhere I would like to live and I have lived in DC since the 80s.

You know you are too cute for words. If you knew Philly main line is not in Philadelphia proper.

You suck

What a mature response, congratulations on using your varied vocabulary. I would never under any circumstances live anywhere in Philadelphia. Residency at Temple, I know what happens and spills over. Not np.

[Anonymous]

Too cold
Too many people living their who grew up there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Killadelphia is the one thing my friend who went to college in Philadelphia, settled and began his new life there has taught me. It’s not somewhere I would like to live and I have lived in DC since the 80s.

You know you are too cute for words. If you knew Philly main line is not in Philadelphia proper.

You suck

What a mature response, congratulations on using your varied vocabulary. I would never under any circumstances live anywhere in Philadelphia. Residency at Temple, I know what happens and spills over. Not np.

Hopefully you’re avoiding DC then, too.